I’m seeing more folks switch to Inkscape for their drawings. There is a setting you should use if you want parts to come out the size you specify in the drawing.
Inkscape’s defaults are set for drawings where you want something to print out like you see it on the screen.
We want the design to come out the way we’ve designed it true to size. In drawing mode a thick line comes out as a thick line and when you specify the size of the object with that thick line, Inkscape includes the line thickness in the size.
But the Crossfire will be cutting the center of the line and not the whole thickness. So the size coming off the table will be different.
For instance, if you specify a line size of 0.1" and you draw a box 1" square, it will be off by 0.2" and will be a 0.8" square. When you use a hairline thickness you don’t have this issue but it’s harder to see on the screen.
What you want is to change Inkscape to disregard the line thickness when you set the size of something. You want to set Geometric Bounding Box instead of Visual in the Tools section. (This tells Inkscape to leave out the width of the stroke.)
I see this pop up a fair amount when things don’t come out true to size or they’re different sizes when done on different PCs. Often they’ve got the defaults set differently.
Thanks for the tip. I often use the View->display mode->outline to get a clean path but keep the visuals for design. Wonder if this does same thing. Thanks again.
Without checking the Geometric Bounding Box you get the problem anyhow.
You can test to make a rectangle (same width, height and stroke width), with and without the Geometric Bounding Box and measure the two. Then you see the different in measurment.
